Pope Francis Started an Instagram Account

Msgr. Dario Vigano, prefect of the Secretariat for Communications at the Vatican, announced that Pope Francis debuted his first Instagram account on March 19. This announcement comes just a few weeks after the Pontiff’s February 26 meeting with Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO and co-founder. Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that allows its users to post and share their photographs and videos through a variety of social networks such as Twitter or Facebook.

The Holy Father’s new account is named “@Franciscus.” The very first photograph posted was a picture of Pope Francis kneeling in prayer. His Twitter account already has 25 million followers and is available in 10 languages. Check it out!